This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Lieutenant Cecil William Charles Shelley. Unit: 2nd Life Guards, attached to 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 17 October 1915 Killed in action in France near Hohenzollern Redoubt Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Dennis Joseph St. Claire Mullaly MC MID. Unit: 1st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1915 Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Morland John Greig , Royal North Devonshire Yeomanry Territorial Force
Died 17 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Archie Walton 5273, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Bert William Davis 11472, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 17 October 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Albert Widgington 18888, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 17 October 1915
Lives of the First World War